Yes, Manos is feminine and the grammatically correct title of this blog SHOULD be Bendichas Manos!!! Thanks to you all for the input.

However, once established, a wordpress Blog cannot be re-named. The only solution is to create a NEW blog……

Since this blog has received several thousand hits and has a growing list of subscribers, we decided to call the new Blog: Bendichas Manos (Bendichos Manos) so that those looking for the old name can still find us! All the original posts were imported to the new site. However, for privacy purposes, subscriptions do not migrate. Therefore, as we direct you to the new site, we ask you to indulge us and fill out the subscription form on the right side of the new page. We look forward to sharing recipes for mustachudos, marochinos, ashuplados, masapan, sevoyas reinadas, megina….etc etc in the days ahead. And after Pesah, yes, yaprakis, too!

Thanks for your interest, ideas and comments. We love hearing about your cooking and baking successes and your suggestions for recipes and menus. Thank you, too, for sharing this site with your friends and families. Your support is appreciated!

My boys love being with our whole family for the Passover Seder. They enjoy our special foods, the “agada”, the Passover story we tell, much of it in Ladino….and the songs….”our songs”…..those special Pesah melodies and Ladino words that bind our family and our Sephardic community. All the cousins know the words and joyously join in, proclaiming their membership in this special group…these songs, these traditions that distinguish our family. These are the sounds of “home”.

Yehoram Gaon, one of my all time favorite singers of Hebrew and Ladino songs, has two very special albums of Shabbat and of Pesah tunes in the Ladino tradition. They can be downloaded on iTunes. I highly recommend that you download and enjoy this music!

Go to iTunes; click on the iTunes Store link on the left; type in the name: Yehoram Gaon in the search box. Click on the albums Piytim Leshabbat and Shirim LePesach. You can listen to a piece of each song before you download. I think you will enjoy them all!

For the upcoming Passover holiday, check out the following from the Ladino Hit Parade: Un Kavritiko.

Sing along…..I’ll post the words, and you and your families can add them to your Seder this year!!!!

We JUST celebrated Purim…..and walking into the market today, I was bombarded with Passover!!!!! Time to start planning our Seder meals, menus for the week…….while preparing delicacies for a Banyo di Novia, in between! Our cooking calendar is busy for the month ahead….all in preparation for happy and wonderful things!!!!

There are several foods that my mom prepares especially and only for Pesah. Keftes di Prassa (leek patties) is one of those specialities.

In our family, these are vegetarian – others make them with ground meat. (these are one of my husband’s very favorite Sephardic treats!!) Continue Reading »